My family are mostly Democrat voting liberals and I identified as one for years. When I was in 5th grade I spent more time with my Fox News-watching grandparents and became a Republican for like a year or 2 and became an apolitical lib for a while. From like 2015-2019 I was a Bernie bro who had some objectively shit takes. The biggest 180 I did was probably on the sex trade. I used to be for it as a horny teen like “huh? Did someone say SeX?? Well it’s all ConSeNsUAL so why cockblock someone from getting some PuSsY?” Obviously now I realize that’s a disgusting sentiment and that most people in the industry are not happy and would rather do anything else. Just because a few are happy with their line of work, it doesn’t make it right to force so many others into a position where they feel abused and humiliated or threatened. “Legitimacy of industry” in terms of prostitution always means lining the pockets of abusive pimps (physical or anything else) who will use the opportunity to get rich and usually fund illegal markets (source: Look at Nevada). Enough about me, what topics have become more clear to yall after becoming a communist? I could probably list a few others but I’m interested in seeing what yall say.
I grew up in a home that had Rush Limbaugh blasting every day from 12-3 in the 90s. My parents would record onto the longest cassette tapes they could find, and it would be my job to turn the tape over if I was home. I would get called (before cell phones) to be reminded to do this task.
That definitely colored my worldview. When I went to college in the earth 00s, I would sometimes get homesick and listen to a little bit of the program. Brain worms.
I jumped onto podcasting very early, listening to all of the early programs. I drifted over to Free Talk Live and would download their podcast episodes daily. I listened to Adam Curry's "Daily Source Code", and then followed him over to his current show "No Agenda" and listened to that religiously.
I read a lot of Atlas Shrugged on my honeymoon.
Over time I extricated myself from No Agenda and FTL. I'm old (42) so it's hard to remember when a lot of the changes happened.
Moved eventually over to CTH, trueanon.
I went vegan in 2016. This kind of helped me along, seeing the good in people, animals, everyone. I'm still a baby communist living a bougie suburban life.